603 Arts Studio Sessions: María-Elena Pombo, Matthew Li, and Andrius Alvarez-Backus

Join us for a visit to the Smack Mellon Residency in DUMBO and walk through the studios of María-Elena Pombo, Matthew Li, and Andrius Alvarez-Backus, followed by drinks at Evil Twin Brewing nearby.
Learn more about the artists below!
María-Elena Pombo creates installations, sculptures, and videos that transform earth-based materials into collaborative explorations of territory, history, and alternative ways of understanding the relationship between people, place, and the environment. She is also one of the artists in MoMA PS1's Greater New York exhibition.
Matthew Li creates installations, video, sculpture, and mixed-media works that explore how homes, cities, and public infrastructure shape memory, belonging, and human connection in an increasingly globalized world.
Andrius Alvarez-Backus creates sculptures, drawings, and paintings that transform everyday objects into poetic assemblages exploring intimacy, memory, desire, and the cultural meanings of materials through the lens of the queer Filipinx experience.